Model-based integration and analysis of biogeochemical and isotopic dynamics in a nitrate-polluted pyritic aquifer

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 10415-10422

  Zhang, Yan Chun ^a   Prommer, Henning ^b,c,d   Broers, Hans Peter ^e,f,g   Slomp, Caroline P ^a   Greskowiak, Janek ^h   Van Der Grift, Bas ^e   Van Cappellen, Philippe ^a,i  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^f TNO   (Netherlands)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; AUTOTROPHIC DENITRIFICATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CONCENTRATION-DEPTH PROFILE; ELEVATED DISCHARGES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; MODEL-BASED INTEGRATIONS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING;

AQUIFERS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; NITRATES; PYRITES; RIVER POLLUTION; SULFUR;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

GROUND WATER; NITRATE; PYRITE; SULFUR; SURFACE WATER;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CALIBRATION; DENITRIFICATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LEACHING; MOBILIZATION; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PYRITE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SULFUR ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DYNAMICS; SIMULATION; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION;

DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER; IRON; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SULFATES; SULFIDES; SULFUR ISOTOPES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84884239706     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4023909     Document Type: Article

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